Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: ksm: refer to special VMAs via VM_SPECIAL in ksm_compatible()

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



> There's no need to spell out all the special cases, also doing it this way
> makes it absolutely clear that we preclude unmergeable VMAs in general, and
> puts the other excluded flags in stark and clear contrast.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/ksm.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
> index 08d486f188ff..d0c763abd499 100644
> --- a/mm/ksm.c
> +++ b/mm/ksm.c
> @@ -679,9 +679,8 @@ static int break_ksm(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, bool lock_v
>  
>  static bool ksm_compatible(const struct file *file, vm_flags_t vm_flags)
>  {
> -	if (vm_flags & (VM_SHARED   | VM_MAYSHARE   | VM_PFNMAP  |
> -			VM_IO       | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_HUGETLB |
> -			VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_DROPPABLE))
> +	if (vm_flags & (VM_SHARED  | VM_MAYSHARE | VM_SPECIAL |
> +			VM_HUGETLB | VM_DROPPABLE))
>  		return false;		/* just ignore the advice */
>  
>  	if (file_is_dax(file))
> -- 
> 2.49.0

Reviewed-by: Xu Xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Ext4 Filesystem]     [Union Filesystem]     [Filesystem Testing]     [Ceph Users]     [Ecryptfs]     [NTFS 3]     [AutoFS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux Cachefs]     [Reiser Filesystem]     [Linux RAID]     [NTFS 3]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [CEPH Development]

  Powered by Linux